"Good Evening all!
It's been a while since I've posted anything, but I was gifted something and I think it's pretty cool, I hope you will too. Provenance wise we know it was purchased in 1978 by my friend's former boss for a luau party at a Swinge-uuhh.... "Adult Social Club" , where it stayed and presided over the hot tub area until the club closed for good in July of 2015. Sadly somehow during the last party it was knocked over and the top broke off (I've got the piece, don't worry) The act of fixing it will probably get a thread of it's own. Anyway, without further ado;

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Okay, here is my situation. Our landlord has decided to sell our rental so we are frantically looking for a place to live and I would like to at least get this guy in one piece before we go, and fix the cracks and paint scrapes later once we're settled.

Has anyone repaired one of these before? My preliminary search didn't pick up any threads on this topic. And honestly I don't know if this is even the best place to put this but here goes;

I've worked with foam before doing Halloween stuff and I've been going back and forth between two options;

Option 1: Use Liquid Nails to do the gluing, a little plastic wood to rebuild the chipped areas, then some color matched Drylok paint for the touch ups.

Option 2: Brush on some Gorilla Glue and give it the faintest mist of some water to do the gluing, then a little plastic wood to rebuild the chipped areas, then some color matched Drylok paint for the touch ups.

Oh yeah on the repair, I have tried to glue onto some foam type stuff and
the glue I used ate the foam up.
As in would not work.

Sooo do small test spots as some glues may not be good.
AND I would put a small Toothpick or bamboo skewer in the two parts to help
bind them together.
Glue the bamboo skewer on both ends before you insert into the tiki.

One more thing...
NO CAMERAS IN THE HOT TUB POOL OF LOVE AREA!
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On 2016-08-03 08:15, tikiskip wrote:Oh yeah on the repair, I have tried to glue onto some foam type stuff and
the glue I used ate the foam up.
As in would not work.

Sooo do small test spots as some glues may not be good.
AND I would put a small Toothpick or bamboo skewer in the two parts to help
bind them together.
Glue the bamboo skewer on both ends before you insert into the tiki.

One more thing...
NO CAMERAS IN THE HOT TUB POOL OF LOVE AREA!

Well I've done quite a little bit of foam gluing in the past, mostly to make tombstones for Halloween, and Liquid Nails construction adhesive is typically my go to. As of recently I've done some foaming experiments with Gorilla Glue which made me wonder if it would marry the foam bits better?
I dunno, maybe I'm overthinking this, but I'm kind of looking at this as an art restoration project instead of a broken Halloween prop project. I just want to make sure I'm doing the right thing.

And about the cameras, that's spot on! No cameras or cell phones past the reception desk!

Well Skip, to answer your question, we're talking about people from literally All walks of life, (hence the confiscation of cameras and phones at the door), and the big parties could be 200 - 400 people from all walks of life strong. The one thing all of them had in common was they were all there to party and have a good time! If it happened that it lead to "sexy Funtime" then bully for them, but it wasn't a given. They suffered no fools there that's for sure.
I will also say the people we met were all super nice and fun and I would party with them anytime! Also no one we met was pushy or creepy and when we politely declined an offer the time we were propositioned, (since it's not exactly our scene) they were totally cool with it and wanted to go dance some more.
I will also say it's called a lifestyle for a reason, a lot of work goes in to partying that hard.

Finished build out with an attempt at a little texturing. Like I said, this is the underside of the piece, so I'm just trying to not attract attention to the area one way or the other. Hopefully gluing later today, had to go look at a new place to live

FINALLY!! Gluing day is here! I've been doing so much stuff with the move I haven't had a chance to monitor the gluing process, which has been as interesting as I thought it would beso here we go:
Moisture: I knew a good deal of this would be controlling the foaming, so I used my spray bottle to mist all the sides, which I think I still over did, but oh well, too late now!

Now time for the Gorilla Glue

Next time to clamp it down, I figured this big guy would do the trick!

Just Kidding! It's foam silly, I used rubber bands instead.

Aaaaaand, here comes the foam, like we knew it would

So I've been on "foam wipe duty" for about half an hour now and it's finally starting to slow. Watch your water is the main advice I would give. There is going to be more paint touching up than I wanted now because of it. More later.